9:30–10:00 AM - Breakfast
10:00–10:15 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:15–11:00 AM
Kristi Wiley (University of California, Berkeley, emeritus), “Emotions and Karma Theory”
Responders: Samani Pratibha Pragya, Ana Bajželj
11:00–11:45 AM
Ana Bajželj (University of California, Riverside), “Jain Conceptions of Carelessness (Pramāda)”
Responders: Kristi Wiley, Tillo Detige
11:45 AM–12:45 PM - Lunch
12:45–1:30 PM
Samani Pratibha Pragya (Florida International University), “Emotion of the Motionless: Exploring Ekendriya Jīvas in Jain Metaphysics”
Responders: Ana Bajželj, Gregory Clines
1:30 AM–2:15 PM
Sasha Restifo (Florida International University), “Pleasure and Pain: Reading the Kasāya-pāhuḍa and Its Commentaries”
Responders: Nandita Punj, Kristi Wiley
2:15–2:30 PM - Tea / Coffee Break
2:30–3:15 PM
John Cort (Denison University, emeritus), “‘Hail Hail Joy, Hail Hail Fortune:’ Reflections on Equanimity and Celebration in Jain Mendicant Funerary Practices”
Responders: Rahul Parson, Tillo Detige
3:15–4:00 PM
Tillo Detige (Rutgers University), “Reading Digambara Pūjās: Emotion, Equanimity, and Bliss”
Responders: John Cort, Raja Rosenhagen
4:00–4:45 PM
Nandita Punj (Arizona State University), “Emotion and Devotion: Moods and Transitions in an Early Modern Jain Narrative Tale”
Responders: Sasha Restifo, Miki Chase
4:45–5:00 PM - Tea / Coffee Break
5:00-6:00 PM
Group Discussion
6:00 PM - Dinner
9:30–10:00 AM - Breakfast
10:00–10:10 AM
Welcome Back
10:10–10:55 AM
Whitney Kelting (Northeastern University), “Protecting the Cash Drawer, Blessing the Account Books: Masculinity, Money Rituals, and Middle-Class Anxiety”
Responders: Miki Chase, Raja Rosenhagen
10:55–11:40 AM
Mikaela Chase (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “‘One Eye Crying, One Eye Happy:’ Martial Metaphors and the Gendered Distribution of Mourning Santhārā”
Responders: John Cort, Whitney Kelting
11:40 AM–12:40 PM - Lunch
12:40–1:25 PM
Gregory Clines (Trinity University), “Narrative Doctrine: The Visceral Work of Karma in Raviṣeṇa’s Padmapūrāṇa”
Responders: Nandita Punj, Rahul Parson
1:25–2:10 PM
Rahul Parson (University of California, Berkeley), “Rebels and Renunciants: Jain Emotional Strategies in Contemporary Hindi Novels”
Responders: Samani Pratibha Pragya, Whitney Kelting
2:10–2:55 PM
Raja Rosenhagen (Fresno State University), “The Glue of Passions, the Gaze of Love: A Jain–Murdoch Conversation”
Responders: Gregory Clines, Sasha Restifo
2:55–3:10 PM - Tea / Coffee Break
3:10–4:30 PM
Group Discussion
4:30–5:30 PM - Closing Reflections and Dinner